The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-12

that the direct oversight of the busi
ness of the House has been in the
hands of one SO entirely devoted to its
interests to whom the confidence and
esteem of the Universalist communion
goes forth in such large measure.
Turning now from the personal point
of view desire to express my grateful
appreciation of the work done by the
House in the prosecution of its legiti-
mate business. Our church has been
supplied with books, papers and period
icals to meet the ever advancing de-
mand Of the times. Our papers have
been bright and progressive, every year
taking higher rank among religious
| journals and exerting a ministry of
wider usefulness. For myself, for my
people and State, for my brethren gen.
orally, so far as l may speak for them,
L thank our able editors and contribu-
tors for the work they have done and
are doing. But just here l want to ex-
press my gratitude to those who stand
back of these editors and writer's, and
who have made possible this larger
work and better expression of our liter
ature-this advanced position now held
| by our press. 1t is the men of busi-
ness connected with the Publishing
House, most faithful to watch over its
affairs, who have contributed largely to
opening the doors of opportunity and
making possible the efforts that have
resulted so much to the prosperity of
our church. 1t counts for much to give
money to an enterprise, but it is a
greater gift to bestow time, thought,
business experience and devoted love,
as some of these energetic workers in
the Board of management of the Uni
versalist Publishing House have done.
Let US not forget the need of praise
which is justly due to them for what
we now have to use and enjoy in
our increased denominatiOnal facilities.
"Other men have labored, and ye are
entered into their labors."
The past is secure; the twenty-five
years of work and accomplishment as
connected with the organization here
represented, bring to us a glowing rec
ord, tellingof enterprise and of success.
But the end is not reached-the ideal is
not realized. More enterprise, larger
undertakings, greater work done in the
interests of our faith and our church, is
what we all anticipate. We want cop
/ les of our best denominational works to
be multiplied and scattered over the
land; we want our papers, now so excel
| lent, to be made as much better as pos
sible, and received and read in every
Universalist home. The Publishing
House was never so we'll equipped for
work as now. 1t is prepared to strike
out in some new directions and occupy
some new fields. 1t may indeed stand
in the old ways and make progress. "
To this end it may of right demand the
practical sympathy and generous sup
port of our whole people, that so,
through its appointed agencies, it may
render the best service to the Universal
ist faith and the Uniyersalist church.
ADDRESS BY REV. MR.. BARROWS.
Detecting the Rev. S. j. Barrows,
the editor Uf the Christian Register, (Uni-
tarianl, in the audience, DR.. Miner, in
terms fraternal and humorous, sum-
mOned him to arise and speak.
Responding, Mr.. Barrows said that
he always read the CHRISTIAN LEAD
Err, and the last thing he saw therein was
paragraph by the editor, giving warn
ing not to attempt to give an address
without first having thought it out with
pen and ink. Yet he was most unex-
pectedly on his feet, and he must speak
without that needful preparation. More
than any other people, he found that
Universalists appeal to the heart-they
believe in the heart-they put their
heart into their religion. He went back
in memory twenty years, and he could
but recall the great anxiety for Uni
versalists he would have felt had he at
that period entered such a meeting as
the present. Then he would have been
anxious, not indeed for the present well
fare of the Universalist people, but for
what would be likely to befall them
later on Then he was Baptist in his
theology. In fact the first time he en-
tered a Universalist meeting he prayed
that he might not be converted. But
a few weeks ago he entered another
Universalist meeting, and how differ
emily he felt What difference in the
two estates of his mind, between the
two events separated by that twenty
years
The speaker gave humorous sketch
of his endeavor to find the Shawmut
church. He entered what he imagined
was the right edifice. But he saw no
one in vestry or auditorium. Through
a side door he saw table set for ban
quet, but the table was small, and the
plates were few. He discovered he had
/ got into an orthodox church Finding
the real Shawmut church he saw the
real thing, and the preparations on
the tables for the thTong. The fact
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